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title: From direct experiment professors of Chicago University have recentl… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: From direct experiment professors of Chicago University have recently proved a tidal movement in the solid earth up and down of about a foot twice each day, and varying in amount through the lunar month and the solar year. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 34

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From direct experiment professors of Chicago University have recently proved a tidal movement in the solid earth up and down of about a foot twice each day, and varying in amount through the lunar month and the solar year.

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**What happens:** prove, vary · **To what, where:** tidal movement, solid earth, amount

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:2:34
# text = From direct experiment professors of Chicago University have recently proved a tidal movement in the solid earth up and down of about a foot twice each day, and varying in amount through the lunar month and the solar year.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	professors	professor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present · perfect |  | a tidal movement |  | the solid earth |  | from direct experiment professors of Chicago University; down, recently *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent movement=Theme from professor=Source |
| 2 | **vary** | gerund |  |  |  | amount | month |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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